Food & Wine Pairing: Wine & Milk Chocolate

Video Transcript

"Let's talk about wine pairing and milk chocolate. Milk chocolate is delicious. It's very light, sometimes very rich, it will melt in your mouth and it's usually very very sweet. All of those things can be a little bit of a tough match for wine. So milk chocolate has some very very strict rules when it comes to food and wine pairing. First of all if we want to pair milk chocolate with a red wine it's going to have to be one of the lightest, fruitiest wines around. An Argentine Malbec or a California Merlot are about the only ones that would work. So stick to some very light red wines. Milk chocolate's best match is a slightly sweet Rose, or red wine. We're talking maybe an Italian Briquet De Qui, maybe a sparkling Australian Shiraz, or maybe a slightly sweet rose. These wines will be absolutely perfect with milk chocolate, because the sweetness in the chocolate will make the sweetness in the wine go away a little bit, and the will form a nice refreshing match. So milk chocolate is very very tricky, but if you're going to try to pair it with wine, pair it with a very light red, or a slightly sweet red. Then you'll get a good match."